The Poncho Project team have some very special events coming up… This Friday they will be making crafts from offcuts for sale at our stall at Strawberry Fair, followed on Saturday by a session to make bags from otherwise unusable tent fabric. Then on SATURDAY 9 JUNE there […]
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We are delighted that our friends at Cambridge 105 Community Radio have selected CamCRAG to be the station’s charity of the month in May. You can hear interviews with our volunteers on shows throughout the month, including from April’s convoy to Calais when we were accompanied by the station’s reporters. […]
The Daily Bread Co-operative in Kings Hedges and the Box Cafe on Norfolk Street both keep a CamCRAG change collection tin by their tills. We recently emptied both, receiving £53.07 from the Box Cafe and £122.47 from the Daily Bread. Thank you! Could you keep a change collection tin in […]
CamCRAG Chair Elliot Harris looks back at another weekend at the warehouse in Calais. I can’t believe it’s almost been a week since we went on another convoy to Calais! (and just over 6 weeks since the last one!) Yet again the Cambridge crew did us proud, mucking in all […]
Want to join us for a weekend volunteering in Calais? CamCRAG has announced dates for all of our remaining convoys in 2018. CamCRAG convoys leave Cambridge on Friday evenings, returning Sunday evening, and will take place on these weekends: June 8 – 10 July 27 – 29 September 7 – […]
Thank you to everyone who gave so generously at Bethel Baptist Church in Swavesey last Saturday. We received over 20kg of food, 23 sleeping bags, 8 bags of clothes, and several boxes of hygiene and kitchen consumables, and other donations. These are now in our storage and will soon be […]
The CamCRAG Poncho Project team, who have so far made over 1000 ponchos for refugees in Europe, now have their own website! At camcrag.org.uk/ponchos you can find out all the latest info about the project, including future sewing sessions, how to buy your own poncho, how to donate to the […]
In 2015 the world woke up and wept as they witnessed the heartbreaking image of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach. Grassroots groups gathered to do what they could as refugees arrived on shorelines manned by volunteers. Spin forward to right NOW … Lesvos now hosts […]
Thank you to everyone who came to the poetry reading and concert at St Barnabas’ last week: The evening was a great success and completely sold out! Michael Rosen and ReSound Acappella Choir were wonderful, aided by everyone who came along and added to the fantastic atmosphere. Thanks to all […]
CamCRAG Chair Elliot Harris reports back from another productive weekend volunteering in Calais Thank you to Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK), Help Refugees, L’Auberge des Migrants and all of the other wonderful groups who slog away every day and who treat us like family when we pop down to the warehouse […]